GOAL:Honor ancestors by creating blog
posts - a place on the web that anyone can find using simple search engine
techniques. Learn how to cut costs of printing & snail-mailing your family
newsletter, and find out how to reach beyond your current membership circle.

PROCESS: Carrie demos setting up a blog in
three easy steps. Myrt analyzes a printed newsletter and demos how to turn it
into a blog. This webinar includes short segments about setting up a Google Calendar
that several members can update, and how to convert your blog into a genealogy
book.

On 7 Mar 2013, Carole Riley from New South Wales wrote Why a blog is more attractive than a
website, explaining that a blog post
about a specific person or family line will be higher in a Google Search and is
more likely to hold the attention of a casual reader.

Three steps to creating your brand spanking new blog by logging in to www.Blogger.com with your Gmail account user
name and password and selecting the “New Blog” button.

Create "Title"

Create "Address"

Select "template"

The just click that "CREATE BLOG!" button.

From here
on in, creating a blog post is no more difficult than composing email.You
may copy and paste text, change fonts, add bold, italics, add color and
highlighting, insert hyperlinks and images, use bulleted lists, indent large
quotes, and spell check.

Bloggers
can even create a series of posts, scheduling them for later publication.In
this manner society newsletter editors could :

Blogger.com's Scheduling Option

copy and paste submitted
articles

insert illustrations

set for publication on the
usual paper newsletter publication date.

How do
members subscribe?Members of the society subscribe to the blog
using email or “in the cloud” with a blog reader like Google Reader.

How can
others find us?Google adds blog posts to the list of hits
when someone uses this powerful search engine.

Bloggers
can even create a series of posts, scheduling them for later publication.In
this manner society newsletter editors could :

copy and paste submitted
articles

insert illustrations

set for publication on the
usual paper newsletter publication date.

How do
members subscribe?Members of the society subscribe to the blog
using email or “in the cloud” with a blog reader like Google Reader.

How can
others find us?Google includes blog posts to the list of hits
when someone uses this powerful search engine.

Bloggers
can even create a series of posts, scheduling them for later publication.In
this manner society newsletter editors could :

copy and paste submitted
articles

insert illustrations

set for publication on the
usual paper newsletter publication date.

DO YOU WANT A PRINTED SOCIETY NEWSLETTER OR A
BLOG?

Paper on the shelf
or
a dynamic web presence?

If your
priority is to get your message out to the world, then a dynamic web presence
is KEY.

Blogger.com is owned by Google.

Within 5-10 minutes of publication, Google has “spidered”
every word on your blog post, increasing the likelihood of others finding you.